Best live-action sitcom currently on in the US. Loved the finale and agree about the loony programming head's inspired and thoroughly *au courant*idea, but thought the ep with LeBlanc cheating on his blind lover with his co-star's teenage relative was a bit funnier - and a natural for Emmy submission. Still, what a great ride and a great way to wrap up the current run! And I do believe we have two more seasons of "Episodes" on the way.
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:13:01 PM UTC-7, Dave Sikula wrote: > > I don't know if anyone here is still watching the Showtime series, but I > am (despite the difficulty they're having in airing the episodes), and > thought the Season Three finale was the best of the season. > > The reason I mention it is that, at one point, the head of the network > (played by Chris Diamantopoulos) is off his meds and pitching the future of > the net to its board. He goes off on a rant that is supposed to reflect his > mental state, but which I think is actually brilliant and might not be a > bad course of action for the broadcast networks. In short, there's no > schedule; there are no "nights," there's no nothing recurring to depend on. > Everything is live and just put on the air at any time, forcing viewers to > watch live (and to connect with friends: "Tune in right now! You won't > believe what they're doing!") > > Anything goes. He specifically mentions "What if the host of a cooking > show is taken hostage by the villain of one of our cop shows? And then he's > shot by a cop?" "An actor?" "No, a real cop!" "Really shooting him?" "Why > not? There are plenty of actors who'll do it." > > Given that the only things that seem to be able to defeat time-shifting > are sports and other live events, something like this may be the only > course of the broadcast entities are going to survive. > > Just sayin'. > > --Dave Sikula > <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224565/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16> > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
